Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calling All Cars. In Chicago, Captain Wilbur Kennedy of the state police heard so many complaints from harassed and embarrassed couples that he issued an order: when approaching parked cars on dark and lonely roads, troopers are to cough, whistle or croon a lovesong...
...time it stormed. Once Severn, who was himself ill (he had had typhus and a liver com plaint), came upon Keats during a hemorrhage and stumbled away to the stern of the ship, because the sight of so much suffering was unbearable. "He heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church of Santa Trinita de' Monti, overlooking a fountain built in the shape...
...whooping-cough epidemic in 1908 quarantined Baltimore school children at home. The faculty of Calvert School mailed lessons to its whoopers, later developed a Home Instruction Division for grades from kindergarten to first year high school. Thanks to this necessity-mothered beginning, children can get a standard U.S. education anywhere the U.S. mails can reach...
Soon Dr. Fleming had ascertained that: 1) the strange liquid did not harm fresh leucocytes (white blood corpuscles); 2) injections of the liquid did not hurt mice; 3) some bacteria (e.g., whooping cough bacillus) lived in the liquid as cozily as in a baby's throat. Modest Dr. Fleming saved the moldy plate as a souvenir, still...
...Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md., they X-rayed Franklin Roosevelt's chest. It was a mild case of bronchitis, going into its third week. To reporters, the President pooh-poohed his illness, continued to smoke from his long cigaret holder, continued to cough softly but persistently. Last week...